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A few days ago, I was talking to a friend about something that was on a forum. Since we were on the phone at the time, I couldn't just give her a link so I told her to just hit "posts since your last visit." This is a link I use regularly but obviously she didn't. This brings me to the question:

Which way do you prefer to read posts and why?

I always go straight to the forums I'm interested in. The "posts since last visit" way of doing it is annoying because I may not be interested in some of the specific forums, yet all the posts within it show up in the list.